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matcha_addict@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Xkcd 927?

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  • gornius@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What?

    It’s simple and readable. You literally put somebody that has never coded in their life, show them the YAML file and they will probably get it.

    In Toml there are too many ways to do the same thing, which I don’t like. Also unless you know it deeply, you have no idea how the underlying data structure is going to look.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Toml there are too many ways to do the same thing, which I don’t like

      ha

      63 different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML

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      • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wow. I've never used yaml or even looked at it but damn that is horrid. Why do people even use this? JSON and XML are so better.

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  • matcha_addict@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yaml is already pretty popular, so I don’t think 927 applies here. It’s actually more common in newer projects than toml.

    Which begs the question, should I go with the flow or is there good reason to go with toml?

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  XML < YAML < TOML

  noyaml.com

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• jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perhaps they’re Norwegian.

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• Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Significant whitespace is the devil’s play thing.

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